PointsGPT, PointsYeah, Seats.aero, and point.me Compared

All four search award availability across airline programs at once, so you don't have to repeat a search on each airline's website. They differ in how you describe the trip, whether results are priced in your credit card points, how many dates one search covers, what the free version includes, and how you get from a result to a booking.

With all four, the award ticket is booked with the airline program, either by you or, if you pay for point.me's concierge, by its specialists. No tool here is the right pick for every trip, so this page compares what each one does rather than naming a winner.

The four tools at a glance

Each cell sums up what the company says on its own site, and the sections below link each source. Program counts are the companies' own published figures, and they count different things, so read them as rough guides, not a ranking.

PointsGPT

PointsGPT is a chat. You describe the trip in a sentence, such as "business class from Chicago to Tokyo in mid-April." It asks one short question at a time about anything missing, then searches its supported airline programs. It works in a web browser and in an iPhone app.

• Card points: it prices award fares in Amex Membership Rewards, Chase Ultimate Rewards, Capital One miles, Citi ThankYou Points, or Bilt Points, so the cost appears in the points you hold (Help).
• Dates: you can give date ranges in the chat or pick them on a calendar, and it searches every day in them. For a round trip, it pairs an outbound and a return fare, which you book separately.
• Alerts: it watches every dated trip you search, up to 20 at a time. When a trip gets at least 5% cheaper than the last fare it showed or sent you, or a first fare turns up, it sends a push notification and a text, at most one alert in 24 hours. A push needs the iPhone app. A free account's alerts start once you agree to texts about your account and offers, and they show the route and the points; Pro adds the date and the program.
• Free access: it depends on the account, as Help explains. With a weekly search counter, Free includes five searches a week and economy fares with booking steps, and Pro adds 200 searches a month and every cabin (Pro+ is unlimited). Other accounts get five searches a day, or a first search that runs free after a wait or now with Pro (pricing). Some free results show only the points price, dates, and cabin, with the airline, program, flight times, and booking steps on Pro.
• Booking: PointsGPT never books, holds, or sells tickets. Its Book button lists three steps: confirm the fare with the airline, transfer points if needed, and book with the airline program. When it has them, the transfer step shows the ratio, how long the transfer usually takes, and any active transfer bonus.

Limits:

• It doesn't book. You transfer points and book with the airline yourself.
• It shows fares seen in the last three days, and availability can change after that. A points transfer can't be undone, so confirm the fare with the airline before you move points.
• Coverage depends on the route, the dates, and the program. An empty search means its data returned no matching fares; it doesn't prove there's no award fare to book.
• It doesn't compare live cash fares. The cash price it shows is an estimate for a comparable flight, not a live quote, so check the cash fare yourself; our points vs cash guide shows how.
• Without Pro, depending on your account, searches are capped at five a week in economy or five a day, or the first search waits, and results can leave out the airline, program, and booking steps.
• Signing in needs a US phone number, and there's no Android app; on Android, use the website.

Suits you if you'd rather describe a trip than fill in a search form, and you want award fares priced in your card points.

PointsYeah

PointsYeah works like other travel search sites: you fill in a search form, and one search can cover several dates (search guide). Its FAQ says it supports 20+ airline programs and major credit card rewards, and its About page lists the programs by name and describes its searches as live and real time. Its FAQ says it works on desktop, on mobile, and in its app.

• Card points: its search guide says it calculates points transfers for you, including transfer-bonus promotions. The About page lists Amex Membership Rewards, Bilt Rewards, Capital One Miles, Chase Ultimate Rewards, Citi ThankYou Points, US Bank, and Wells Fargo.
• Dates: its FAQ says a free account searches up to 4 days at a time, and Premium up to 8. Its Daydream Explorer browses trips by region, cabin, time of year, or points balance (FAQ).
• Alerts: its alert guide says alerts track both points-price changes and newly released award space. Free accounts get up to 4 active alerts, with each travel date counting as one, and members get 32. Alerts arrive by email and on your alerts page.
• Free access: you sign up with an email address (search guide). Premium is described in its membership guide.
• Booking: its search guide says that when you choose a booking option, it sends you to the airline's site to finish booking (search guide).

Limits:

• The free plan caps each search at 4 days (FAQ) and allows 4 active alerts (alert guide).
• Its FAQ says Explorer results aren't real time.

Suits you if you like scanning several dates with detailed filters and want transfer costs, bonuses included, worked out for you.

Seats.aero

Seats.aero pairs a search form with an Explore tool. You enter where you're flying from, where you're going (a whole region such as Europe works), your dates, and the cabin, then view results in one of four layouts, including a calendar (getting started, search views). Its help center says it covers dozens of airlines and loyalty programs (what it is).

• Card points: results show what each airline program charges in its own miles or points. A transfer-partner filter narrows them to programs your credit cards can transfer to (getting started).
• Dates: search around a date with a ± range or set a custom range, and it checks every date inside it (date ranges). Its plan comparison lists a search window of up to 30 days on the free plan and 60+ days on Pro (Free vs. Pro).
• Alerts: the plan comparison lists up to 5 active alerts on the free plan and unlimited alerts on Pro. Alerts fire once by default, and continuous alerts are a Pro feature. Its alerts article lists email, push notifications through its iOS and Android apps, and, on Pro where supported, text messages (alerts).
• Free access: you can run basic searches without an account. Pro adds the longer search window, unlimited alerts, and faster data refreshes (what it is).
• Booking: Seats.aero doesn't book. Open a flight's details and choose Booking Options for links to the airline or program (booking).

Limits:

• Most results come from data it has already collected and keeps updating, and that cached search is limited to the routes it lists for each program. Pro members can run a live search on some programs (cached and live results).
• It searches one way at a time, so a round trip takes two searches, and it doesn't search multi-city trips in one query (round trips).

Suits you if you're comfortable comparing airline programs' prices yourself and want wide date ranges, calendar views, and alerts.

point.me

point.me uses a search form (trip type, travelers, cabin, origin, destination, and date) alongside Explore, a deals map for flexible dates (homepage). Its pricing page says it covers 150+ airlines and 30+ loyalty programs.

• Card points: its help center lists six card programs: American Express Membership Rewards, Bilt Rewards, Brex Rewards, Capital One Rewards, Chase Ultimate Rewards, and Citi ThankYou Points (card programs). Paid plans add step-by-step transfer and booking instructions (pricing).
• Dates: Explore covers any range of dates (homepage). Its pricing page says free search reaches 60 days out, with up to 15 results per search, and paid plans search up to a year out in real time (pricing).
• Alerts: its pricing page lists award price alerts on paid plans: 3 on annual Standard and 5 on Premium (pricing).
• Free access: the Free Forever plan includes Explore, limited search, and manual points tracking, but not unlocked real-time search (pricing).
• Booking: you book with the airline program by following its "Show me how" steps (booking help). Its concierge is a separate paid service whose specialists, the company says, find flights, handle transfers, and book for you (homepage).

Limits:

• Unlocked real-time search, booking instructions, and alerts need a paid plan (pricing).
• Its pricing page marks four programs (Air Canada Aeroplan, Asiana Airlines Asiana Club, Malaysia Airlines Enrich, and Thai Airways Royal Orchid Plus) as having limited support for now.

Suits you if you want written steps for moving a specific card's points, or you'd pay a specialist to book a complicated trip.

A hypothetical trip, four ways

Hypothetical example: Maya has Chase Ultimate Rewards and Amex Membership Rewards points. She wants one business class ticket from Chicago to Tokyo, leaving any day from 6 to 19 April 2027, and she doesn't know which airline program to use. This is how each tool's documented features would shape her search. We didn't run these searches, so there are no results or prices here.

• PointsGPT: she types the trip and the date range in one sentence. It searches each day in the range and prices what it finds in Chase and Amex points. Free access depends on her account: with the weekly allowance, free searches cover economy fares, so business class needs Pro; other accounts run a first search free after a wait. PointsGPT then watches the trip and can alert her if the fare drops.
• PointsYeah: a free search covers 4 days, so her 14-day window takes four searches, or two with Premium. It works out the transfer from Chase or Amex, including any transfer bonus, and sends her to the airline to book.
• Seats.aero: her dates are nearly six months out, and Seats.aero says Pro's longer search window helps you plan further ahead, so she may need Pro. She can then search the whole range, compare dates in the calendar view, and turn on the transfer-partner filter for programs her cards reach.
• point.me: her dates are beyond the free plan's 60 days, so she'd need a paid plan to search those dates. It then shows step-by-step transfer instructions for Chase or Amex, or she could pay its concierge to book.

If she wants to describe the trip once in plain words and see prices in her card points, PointsGPT fits. If she'd rather set dates and filters herself, PointsYeah or Seats.aero fits, and PointsYeah also works out the transfer, bonuses included. If she wants written transfer steps for her card, or someone to book for her, point.me fits. Whichever she uses, she should confirm the award fare with the airline before transferring points, because award availability can vanish between search and booking. Our guide to flying to Japan on points covers what to plan before she transfers.

How we compared them

• We read each company's own website and help center on 20 October 2026 and link the pages beside each claim. Help-center articles carry their own "last updated" dates, and some are older than this page.
• We didn't run test searches for this article, so nothing here describes search results, speed, or accuracy.
• The program counts in the table are PointsYeah's and point.me's own published figures, linked where they appear. We didn't check any tool's coverage route by route.
• We don't quote prices for any of the four. Plans and prices change and can differ between a website and an app store, so use the pricing links in the table.

Sources we checked:

• PointsGPT: Help, airline programs, pricing, About
• PointsYeah: FAQ, search guide, alert guide, About, membership guide
• Seats.aero: help center articles on getting started, what it is, Free vs. Pro, date ranges, search views, cached and live results, alerts, booking, and round trips
• point.me: homepage, pricing, card programs, booking help

If a search in any of these tools comes back empty, our guide to why an award search shows nothing explains what to try next.